Pat Robertson, who shared the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics, has made a new prediction, this time about climate change. Robertson won his Ig Nobel for predicting the world would end in 1982, thus (eventually) teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations. His co-winners each made their own erroneous predictions […]
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Joe Barton: lessons for scientists
US Congressman Joe Barton, in an interview on C-SPAN, patiently explained that most scientists don’t do science the way he does. Here are two of Barton’s many notable observations. Hear them and more in the entire interview (the numbers indicate when in the interview you can hear him give these lessons): 3:12: If we have […]
Windowspotting
In the June 28, 2008 issue of BMJ (the publication formerly known as the British Medical Journal) Barrie Smith, a retired physician from Birmingham, describes—though he does not name—a new form of the grand British tradition of otting. The proper name for it is obvious to anyone who reads Dr. Smith’s description: windowspotting. The best […]